Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-02

SIXTEENTH YEAR-No 3k/ FIR

pace with all increases in real estate
values. In the above case the assess
ment increase this year over last is
$50 per cent. Is it probable that
State and county expenses in Los
Angeles county increased in the same
ratio? Hardly.
Did the same state of affairs exist
in Allegany county the tax rate this
year would be about 20 cents per
800, instead of 81 per $1oO.
And so it ought to he in Los
Angeles in which event instead of
an enlarged assessment "bankrupting
big landholders and forcing small
spectators out of market" it should
very materially reduce the burden of
taxation upon rich and poor alike,
and make all the better able to pay
them.
There is a dreadful amount of
misapprehension extant concerning
the effect of augmented assessments
upon the rates of taxation.
And many people are paying
dreadfully for their ignorance of one
of the simplest rules in primary
arithmetic.
PERHAPS Mr.. Walsh was never
more entertaining and eloquent than
last Saturday when speaking to the
Knights of Labor at the Cumberland
picnic. When he delves into history
the hearer may we'll anticipate that
sturdy truth will come out in the
shape of striking illustration and
rugged example. In this instance,
as.usual, they were not disappointed.
M. Wellington's apostrophe to
labor and its gigantic achievements
upon the same occasion was equally
eloquent and replete with vital sug-
gestion. Though, like Mr.. Walsh,
workman by inheritance and habit;
though expressly excluded by the
organic law of the order from its
membership, like Mr.. Walsh also, his
encomiums upon Its principles, OBJ
jects and accomplishments glowed as
brightly as though warmed by frater-
nal fire.
The most conspicuous lesson af-
forded by this picnic incident was an
acknowledgment on the one hand by
the order that there are outside its
membership counselors as bold, wise
and safe as inside, and on the other
that the utterances to which we have
alluded fully attest the wisdom of
those who invited their advice at
time so propitious of good fellowship.
With such men, therefore, as Walsh
and Wellington as friends and guides
the knights of Labor need never 60
wrong in either social or industrial
economy; with such advisers the
strike and its legion of attendant
evils will become things of the past,
and the walking delegate a reminis-
| cence of an extinct vocation.
TAKE the JOURNAL in your hand
this glorious day in July and honest
ly compare it with any other paper in
the county.
In some you will find more bulk,
but in none anything approaching
the quality of our matter.
Papers reach you week after week
for years without ever containing an
editorial thought worth preservation.
But the JOURNAL manages every
week to send it's thousands of readers
at least one new literary wrinkle
ranging in value from its subscription
price for one year, $3.50, away up to
goodness knows where.
There is no mistake about this.
Now, if you see this as we do, speak
of it outside the charmed circle
bounded by our already immense
subscription list, and speak loud, for
now is the time to subscribe.
"The JOURNAL is represented"
writes lady, sin nearly every scrap
book in Frostburg," and that de-
| lightful message is the immediate
occasion of this delectable article.
And miner informed us not long
ago that JOURNAL editorials, now
crumpled and worn with service,
were carried concealed in the work
ing clothes of conserva tive men, and
more than several times had the po-
tential weapon been drawn upon
some devotee of the walking delegate
plan, and the latter metaphorically
mashed.